Sangir people

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The Sangir people are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the Sangihe Islands in northern Indonesia, known for their seafaring traditions, distinct language, and Christian-majority culture.

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Label Occurrences
Sangir people canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian people ⓘ
ethnic group ⓘ
borderingCountryRegion southern Philippines ⓘ
colonialHistory Dutch East Indies ⓘ
country Indonesia ⓘ
culturalArea Maritime Southeast Asia ⓘ
culturalTrait boat-building traditions ⓘ
clan-based social organization ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ
economicActivity copra production ⓘ
spice trade ⓘ
ethnicGroupOf Indonesia ⓘ
language Sangir language ⓘ
languageFamily Austronesian languages ⓘ
languageSubgroup Philippine languages ⓘ
majorityReligion Christianity ⓘ
migration historical movement between Sangihe Islands and Mindanao ⓘ
minorityReligion Islam ⓘ
nativeTo North Sulawesi ⓘ
Sangihe Islands ⓘ
northern Indonesia ⓘ
partOf Indonesian people ⓘ
populationDistribution North Sulawesi Province ⓘ
linked to: North Sulawesi

Sangihe Islands Regency ⓘ
region Celebes Sea ⓘ
Sangihe Islands Regency ⓘ
Sulawesi ⓘ
linked to: Sulawesi region
relatedEthnicGroup Banggai people ⓘ
Filipino people ⓘ
Gorontalo people ⓘ
Minahasan people ⓘ
Talaud people ⓘ
Visayan people ⓘ
religion Christianity ⓘ
Protestantism ⓘ
Roman Catholicism ⓘ
religiousInfluence Catholic missions ⓘ
Dutch Reformed missions ⓘ
sea Celebes Sea ⓘ
traditionalDance war dances ⓘ
traditionalHousing stilt houses ⓘ
traditionalMusic drum ensembles ⓘ
gong ensembles ⓘ
traditionalOccupation fishing ⓘ
seafaring ⓘ
subsistence agriculture ⓘ
trading ⓘ
traditionalReligion indigenous animist beliefs ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sangir language → ethnicGroup → Sangir people ⓘ